Group Show – Martha Jablonski-Jones Anne Russell Gena Thompson

This exhibition features work by three local artists that express their perspectives on the structures, streetscapes, urban landscape, living conditions and changes in the Downtown Eastside.

Balance of Power
Paintings by Martha Jablonski-Jones
Because they are the carriers of what we generally refer to as power, the hydro structures of our downtown alleys become metaphors for its various polarities: the natural and the man-made, the sacred and the mundane, the strong and the weak. By juxtaposing the elements of city and nature, these paintings explore our co-creation of our world, and our position in it: where does power actually lie?

Nomads
Photo-based Silk-screens by Anne Russell
Nomads is a series of photo-based prints that consider the stereotypes of homelessness and escape from domestication. It documents the materials that are collected and organized by people who negotiate life outside the margins of post industrial society

Words and Symbols
Photos by Gena Thompson
The urban environment is a canvas layered with messages, drawn with lines and colour, and intended for a wide range of audiences.  Most are fleeting.  What is crystal clear to some is incomprehensible to others, and there are as many interpretations as there are eyes in the city.  This is a documentation of many of the messages that temporarily adorned the changing city we walk through.